alt Hacker NewsHopefully this will make WASM more popular. I tried to get into it but lack of documentation was already one reason to not invest too much; speed concerns mentioned by other bloggers also amplified this issue recently. For some reason WebAssembly is not really "breaking through" right now. Perhaps it is inertia, perhaps another reason.
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Ray20 • yesterday at 3:20 PM
I hope so too. Websites that load runtimes for various programming languages are too slim; they need to load the entire operating system, otherwise why do we need all these powerful home computers?.
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Wasm is used in a lot of nooks and crannies, apart from games, Figma already uses it in the core and Wasm-GC has just started to become viable so we will se a lot of server-side languages get better web support.
Using Wasm as an end-all system was never the main intention even if we're heading that way now thanks to all the work people has put in.
I'd say that it's probably used where it's made sense so far.